On Mon, September 29, 2008 22:12, phoebe ayers wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2008/9/29 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com:
http://consumerreportingusa.org/wikipedia.htm Who knew that "Wikipedia was hiring website processing specialists"? Not me, that's for sure! Easy money, here we come!
It's nonsense.
I know that :) The implication I read into it was that they were hiring people to write or post Wikipedia articles, and *that* would be interesting, if true. I may be overreaching, though, and it's just a form letter like Pharos says.
A quick check (try http://consumerreportingusa.org/ by itself) shows that the site is using the pagename requested *eg. 'wikipedia.htm') to generate which company it wants punters to think is recruiting.
In terms of trademark abuse it would be interesting (but ultimately pointless) to find out. There is 'automated processing' going on as they convert the URL into part of the text, but given that the user is - effectively - entering that name (or whatever other) then they could try to argue that it wasn't them that chose to use 'wikipedia' but the user, with them just re-formatting whatever the user had written.
Alison